Greetings from Aloha Land!

Saturday, August 30, 2014

So, there's this "Share Your Experience" photo contest that's only open to employees of several government agencies. I'm entering a photo in it, just to see if I win. After all, I can't win a contest if I don't submit an entry.
My photo is called "Read Between the Layers" and was originally posted to my Instagram account:

Monday, June 2, 2014

Back in the olden days when I was a DJ doing a show called Post Nothing on KTUH I made a mixtape as a giveaway for people who called in to pledge donations during our radiothon fundraising event. I'm fairly certain that I never got around to posting the mixtape online, so it's about time for me to get around to it.

Note: The songs might not be in the correct order in the zip file, but it's important that you listen to them in the order that I've selected because I designed this mix to have a certain flow to it which won't be achieved if you listen out of order.

DOWNLOAD: hxxp://www.mediafire.com/download/ilefzoewq2in32n/Post_Nothing_Mixtape.zip
(change the xx to tt or delete everything prior to www, cut and past link into browser window)

This compilation features songs by artists that I really like, most of whom I regularly played on my radio show. If you like these songs please support the artists by purchasing something from them. Most of them can be found by conducting a simple search via your internet search engine of choice. :)

Monday, May 26, 2014

Saturday night I went with an old friend to see a punk show at The Spot Underground in Providence, Rhode Island. I haven't been to a show in ages. It was more or less a bunch of hardcore bands playing to a small crowd of geriatric patients. Punk's not dead, it's just old and cranky, and waiting for its AARP membership to kick in.
Two of the bands put out a split CD and were giving away free copies. Here is a copy for you, ripped in .mp3 at 320 kbps:

The Replacements - Bastards of Young - Tim
The Damned - New Rose
Army of Darkness - Kafka - The Evil Has Landed
Superchunk - Throwing Things
Anna Calvi - The Wall (The Invisibles cover)
Yamantanka//Sonic Titan - Queens
Asobi Seksu - New Years - Citrus
I Was Totally Destroying It - Vexations
Jose Gonzalez - How Low
Alejandro Escovedo - Notes on Air
Faith No More - The Real Thing - The Real Thing

--- 1200 Hours ---

DOWNLOAD an entire copy of the show:
hxxp://www.mediafire.com/listen/0pvbvrx2e9ou7et/Mateo_Sun_11MAY14_9-12pm.mp3
(cut and paste link into your browser, change hxxp to http or delete hxxp:// to activate link for DL)

Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Today I subbed in for DJ Zilla and played a random assortment of music. It was an unplanned, eclectic assortment of frenetic fury that I hope someone somewhere enjoyed a little bit. I haven't been on the air in a long time so it was very nice to be back. Hopefully I'll get to do another show or two before I relocate to Mainlandia in mid May.

Friday, March 7, 2014

Awhile back we did a mixtape swap in a community that I belong to. I made a pretty rad mixtape, but I haven't shared it with anyone but the original recipient until now. Here is the mixtape, for your listening pleasure. You really have to listen to this mixtape in the order as I've compiled because I orchestrated it to have a certain flow.

Post Nothing: Songs in the Life of Mateo, Tracklist:

1) The Wilderness - Marginal Over - Wilderness
This
song is something that I listened to a lot in 2011 and 2012. I found it
to be a really emotionally powerful track that captured my imagination.
It was a favorite for listening while zipping around on my Vespa on Mt
Tantalus or around Honolulu.
2) Faith No More - The Real Thing - The Real Thing
This
is the song that started it all; this album is what got me into music. I
got into Faith No More while I was in Boy Scout Camp in 1989. On of my
tent mates had a copy of it on cassette and it blew my mind. I played
that album on an endless loop all summer. It reminds me of being a kid
in the wilderness and at Cape Cod, sitting around and waiting for life
to begin.
3) Creedle - Where the Wind Blows - Where the Wind Blows
I
was lucky to come across this extremely obscure band during my first
second foray into college radio back in 1997. I was interning my second
show at WJUL at UMass Lowell. It was a Jazz show called "A Love Supreme"
after John Coltrane. This is a fusion band that blends jazz and rock
techniques, but also throws in some Jewish influenced jams just for the
hell of it. This song is mindbending and masterful.
4) The Tragically Hip - Yawning or Snarling - Day for Night
In
the olden days, before the advent of the interwebs, music fans had to
take chances on music. We discovered it through word of mouth, fanzines,
magazines, or by searching the underground. I heard about this band on a
trip to Canada, but I hadn't acutally heard any music by them.
Eventually I went to a Strawberry's record store and bought a copy fo
this CD. I just picked one at random because I liked the alubm cover. At
first I didn't like the CD, but I kept at it and it became one of my
all time favorite albums. This is my favorite song off the release and
it's lyrics really speak to me.
5) Calexico - Sonic Wind - Hot Rail
When
I was a college DJ at UMass Amherst I used to help out the music
department by sorting and labeling new CDs. We had massive amount of
discard bins containing stuff we didn't want to bother putting into the
stacks for various reasons or stuff that we were getting rid of from the
stacks for various other reasons. I found the Hot Rail album in one of
those discard bins. I don't know what enticed me to listen to it, but I
sure am glad that I did because Calexico became one of my all time
favorite bands. Their music makes me thirsty for road trips across
desolate, dusty western expanses. Their mix of alt country and post rock
with a Mexican flare is ingenious and thought provoking. I've seen
this band live twice, once in Boston and once in Milan, Italy. Never
pass at an opportunity to see these guys live as their shows are some of
the best I've ever seen.
6) Dirty Three - Red - Horse Stories
This song by this band was recommended to me by a friend
when I was researching Australian music for my Post Nothing show on
KTUH in Honolulu. This band features Warren Ellis! He's a mad man, you
should see these guys perform live. Seriously. Look for videos on
youtube. This is a postrock band, but so much more...
7) ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - It Was There That I Saw You - Source Codes and Tags
8) Japandroids - No Allegiance to the Queen - No Singles
This
band got me through the hard year in Waialua and was a motivation for
me while I lived on Mt. Tantalus and became a student again at UH Manoa.
Some of the band's lyrics are a bit sophmorish, but some are actually
quite powerful. All together it works nicely. Japandroids music is a
sonic catharsis.
9) Avail - Simple Song - 4 AM Friday
One
of the best punk albums of all time, in my humble opinion. I think this
album is vastly underrated. Just listen to this song. EPIC! This reminds
me of driving around with Chris A on a myriad of misadventures creating
chaos with Avail on an endless loop. This song exemplafies adrenaline
fuled catastrophy on a controled release.
10) Cloud Nothings - Wasted Days - Attack on Memory
Yes.
Yes. Yes. This is what indie rock is supposed to be! This was at 2011
or 2012 release, but it's on my all time top 10 list. This album gets me
so damn pumped up! Every song sounds like it was written for me and
about me. If I could be in a band I'd want it to be just like this.
11) Pixies - U-Mass - Trompe le Monde
This
song is about my alma matter, the Univerisity of Massachusetts,
Amherst. Frank Black/Black Francis went there as well. This song really
catures the ethos of the school, but you'd have to have been a student
there to really understand it. This sond makes me reminice about the
raucous days of my early twenties.
12) Folk Implosion - Insinuation - Dare to Be Surprised
This is just a really great song by a legendary indie rock band.
13) The Calm Blue Sea - We Happy Few - The Calm Blue Sea EP
Post
rock at it's zenith, The Calm Blue Sea is a band that I got into while I
was living in Italy. I found out about them on WOXY, a legendary, but
now defunct internet radio station. Damn, I miss WOXY. CBS is from Texas
and they don't tour a lot. I would love to see this band live.

Friday, January 17, 2014

I subbed in this morning and played some alt country and new blues from 6-9 AM. Show went well, played some great music and I managed to keep the technical flaws to a minimum. Hell, I even managed to record, save, and upload the surf report for once!

I've been showless for awhile, but I'm trying to rectify that. The problem is that they're hesitant to give me a show since they know I'm going to be leaving again. See, I'm a full time student at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, but I'm also a seasonal park ranger for the National Park Service. It's kind of difficult to manage consistency in my life, but I do what I can. Playing music at KTUH is one of the simple joys in my life and I'd really like to continue to bring quality musical programming to the world. Want to help? If you've been listening to my shows and like what you hear, email the bosses and tell them that you want Mateo the Destroyer to get his own show. I don't know if it would make a difference, but it's worth a shot. Shoot along comments to these fine folks: specialties@ktuh.org, pd@ktuh.org, and gm@ktuh.org.
Many mahalos to everyone who tuned in this morning, especially those fine folks who called in with questions and requests!!!

Wednesday, January 1, 2014

What are you doing to ring in the New Year? I'll be walking the spirit line into a traditional Lakota lodge to sweat my brains out and bake in a womb like oven. Then I'll walk along the spirit line to emerge anew into the New Year. http://lifeasametaphor.com/ This is how I began the New Year in 2013 as well, but this year is going to be a lot different.

Wednesday, December 25, 2013

I subbed in for Arnie's show, The ABCs of Zoocryptology again. I covered his show last year as well. This year it went alright, but nowhere near as well as last year. I think that last year had a much better playlist (which happened to have lasted for 6 hours), but this show was a lot more random. I had a lot of technical foul ups as well which made me very disappointed in myself. Also, I got several calls last year telling me they enjoyed my programming, but this year I didn't get a single caller. I hope that there was at least one person somewhere who enjoyed what I was pumping out into the airwaves.
Meh.